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Lars Gustafsson Lars Gustafsson Filosofie Doktor (D.Phil): Theoretical Philosophy, Uppsala, 1978 Jamail Distinguished Professor Emeritus: Plan II, University of Texas at Austin My Present Interests I do not know what is most important to me: my literary work (Death of a Beekeeper, Bernard Foy, The Afternoon of a Tiler, The Silence of the World before Bach) or my philosophical work. Sometimes I cannot see any sharp boundary between these fields and I tend to regard myself as a philosopher who has turned literature into one of his tools. Why write everything as papers, essays? Plato wrote dialogues and Lucretius wrote a poem. One of my old interests is in the Theory of Meaning. My doctoral dissertation (now available as a German paperback, Sprache und Lge [Fischer # 5405]) dealt with some philosophers who have a very low thought of language. I have more confidence in it. Myself I have a very high thought of its ability to transmit not only concepts but also experience and my interest in the theory of meaning has taken me into two directions which are closely connected with my literary work: Meaning in Poetry and Meaning in the Representational Arts. The Philosophy Graduate Seminar which I give this Spring Semester of 1997 (PHL 385) is a reflection of that interest. Another such reflection is my Plan II Senior Seminar, "What is a Poem ?" From the Theory of meaning in Language I have widened my forays into a wider and still more difficult field; the meaning of images. This has resulted in some essays but also in two interdisciplinary seminars offered in the Plan II Honors Program "The Art of Seeing" and "Painting in Theory and Reality." Another field which has interested me a lot in later years is Creativity as a Philosophical concept. Presently I am preparing an International Colloquium together with The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering (IVA) about "Art and Technology." It is one of my convictions that these fields have a common ground and that an analysis of artistic creativity has something important to tell us about technological creativity and vice versa. One result was the International Colloquium which professor John Weinstock and I arranged with support of the Excellence in Swedish Studies Endowment Spring 2000 "Swedish Inventions". `My literary work continues, at present pursuing two lines almost simultaneously, Prose and Poetry. My latest book of Poetry "En tid i Xanadu" was published spring 2002 in Stockholm. -Lars Gustafsson (ca. 2002) CURRICULUM VITAE Lars Gustafsson Education Filosofie Doktor (D.Phil): Theoretical Philosophy, Uppsala, 1978 Filosofie Licentiat, Uppsala, 1960 Uppsala University Sweden: Kings Scholarship to study with Professor Gilbert Ryle, Magdalene College, Oxford, 1957 Valedictorian, Västerås Gymnasium 1955 Academic Appointments Hayden W. Head Regents Professor in the Plan II Honors program 2002 Jamail Distinguished Professor in the Plan II Honors program 1998-2001 Aby Warburg Research professor, Warburg Stiftung, Hamburg, Fall 1997 Invited Fellow of the Berlin Institute of Advanced Studies, Fall 1995 (postponed) Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, 1995 Adjunct Professor of Germanic Studies University of Texas at Austin, 1982- Research Fellow, Bielefeld Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany, 1981- Writer and researcher, 1972 - 1982 DAAD Fellow Berlin, 1972-1973 Other Appointments: Bonniers Litterära Magasin, Stockholm Editor-in-Chief, 1965-1972 Associate Editor, 1960-1965 Awards and Prizes (Selection): The Pilot Prize (Sweden), 1996 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy), 1996 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow of Poetry (USA), 1994 The Poetry Prize of Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, 1993 The Bellman prize of The Royal Swedish Academy, 1990 Una vita per la Litteratura (Italy), 1989 Signe Eklundh-Elds Pris (Royal Swedish Academy), 1988 Heinrich Steffens Preis (Germany), 1986 Prix International Charles Veillon des Essais, 1983 Carl Emil-Englundpriset, 1980 The Swedish Novel Prize, 1979 Aftonbladets Pris, 1961 Svenska Dagbladets Pris, 1960 Honors Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), 1986 Kommendör des Bundesverdienstzeichens (Germany), 1988 Elected Member in Academies Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz,1971 Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1974 The Royal Swedish Academy of Enginering Akademie der Schönen Knste, Munich 2000 Secondary Literature on Lars Gustafsson: Rupprecht Volz, ed. Gustafsson Lesen. Munich: Carl Hanser, 1986 Thomas Nydahl, ed. Underden synliga skriften. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 1996 John Updike. Hugging the Shore. New York, 1983: pp. 539-543 Harold Bloom. The Western Canon. New York, 1994: p. 557 Publications Language code for translations: E=English, G=German, F=French, I=Italian, Sp=Spanish, P=Portuguese, N=Norwegian, D=Danish, Fi=Finnish, Po=Polish, H=Hungarian, H=Hebrew, Gr=Greek, J=Japanese, Du=Dutch. If not otherwise noted, the year of first editions in the original language. FICTION AND POETRY En tid i Xanadu. poems 2002 Blom och den andra magentan 2001 Windy berttar 1999 Tjänarinnan, Fall 1996 Stenkista, 1994 Ett minnespalats, 1994 [G] Historien med hunden, 1993 [F, G, I, S (E in preparation)] Där alfabetet har tvåhundra bokstäver, 1992 Landskapets långsamma förändringar, 1992 En kakelsättares eftermiddag,1991 [E, G, F, I, P, D, Du] Förberedelser för vintersäsongen, 1990 [G, I, S] Problemformuleringsprivilegiet, 1989 Det sällsamma djuret från norr, 1989 [G, I, F, S, P] Spegelskärvor, 1988 Fyra poeter, 1988 Samlade berättelser, 1987 (short stories) Bernard Foys tredje rockad, 1986 [D, N, G, F, I, S, P, H] Frihet och fruktan (med Per Ahlmark), 1985 Bilderna på Solstadens murar, 1985 [G] Stunder vid ett trädgårdsbord, 1984 Sprickorna i muren, 1984 Fåglarna, 1984 Sorgemusik för frimurare, 1983 [G, F, I] ] Världens tystnad före Bach, 1982 Ur bild i bild, 1982 För liberalismen, 1981 [D] Berättelser om lyckliga människor, 1981 [G, F, I, S] Afrikanskt försök, 1980 Artesiska brunnar cartesianska drömmar, 1980 Konfrontationer, 1979 I mikroskopet, 1979 [G] Kinesisk höst, 1978 En biodlares död, 1978 [G, F, E, I, S, Fi, N, D, H, P, Gr, J] Språk och lögn, 1978 [G] Tennisspelarna, 1977 [G, F, E, I, S] Sonetter, 1977 Den lilla världen, 1977 [G] Strandhugg i svensk poesi, 1976 [E] Sigismund, 1976 [G, E] Världsdelar,1975 Familjefesten, 1975 [G, F, I] Den onödiga samtiden (med Jan Myrdal), 1974 [G] Yllet, 1973 Varma rum och kalla, 1972 Herr Gustafsson själv, 1971 [G] Kärleksförklaring till en sefardisk dam, 1970 Utopier, 1969 Konsten att segla med drakar, 1969 Bröderna Wright uppsöker Kitty Hawk och andra dikter, 1968 Förberedelser till flykt och andra berättelser, 1967 [G, F] En privatmansdikter, 1967 En resa till jordens medelpunkt och andra dikter, 1966 Den egentliga berättelsen om Herr Arenander, 1966 [G, I, D, F, P, Du] En förmiddag i Sverige, 1963 Följeslagarna, 1962 Ballongfararna, 1962 Nio brev om romanen (med Lars Bäckström), 1961 Bröderna, 1960 Poeten Brumbergs sista dagar och död, 1959 Vägvila, 1957 DRAMA Die nächtliche Huldigung. Stockholm, Zürich, Frankfurt, Berlin 1969 [G, E] TRANSLATIONS Christopher Middleton. I det dolda huset (from English), 1988 Rainer Maria Rilke. Sonetterna till Orfeus (from German), 1987 Eugene Guillevic. Bröd och stenar (from French),1985 Michael KrÜger. I förnuftets dagsljus (from German), 1985 CRITICISM Monthly cronicles and numerous literary reviews in Bonniers Litterära Magasin (Stockholm), 1960-1972 WEEKLY Book Reviews in Expressen (Stockholm), 1960-1979 MONTHLY Book Reviews in Svenska Dagbladet, 1980 - Total approx. 600 CRITICISM: Collections in Book-Form De andras närvaro, 1995 Bilderna på solstadens murar, Stockholm, 1985 [G] Stunder vid ett trädgårdsbord, Stockholm: Alba, 1984 Kommentarer, 1972 Utopier, Stockholm, 1969 [G] PHILOSOPHY: Articles "Nichts" Die Welt der Enzyklopedie. Herausgegeben von Hans-Magnus Enzensberger. Berlin: Eichborn 2001 "Alexander Bryan Johnson (1786 -1867)." In: Dascal, Gerhardus, Lorenz, Meggle, eds. Sprachphilosophie: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, Vol. I. Berlin & New York: De Gruyter, 1992 "Dr. Nietzsche's Office Hours are Between 10 and 12 A.M." In: R. C. Solomon & K. Higgins, eds. Reading Nietzsche. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988 "Tommaso Campanella: Der Sonnenstaat (1623)." In: K. L .Berghahn & H. U. Seeber, eds. Literarische Utopien von Morus bis zur Gegenwart. Berlin: Atheneum, 1983 "Negation als Spiegel .Utopie aus epistemologischer Sicht." In: V. Vosskamp, ed. Utopieforschung, Vol 1. Stuttgart, 1982 "Leibniz' Universalsprache als Wissenschaftsutopie ." In: V. Vosskamp, ed. Utopieforschung, Vol 2. Stuttgart, 1982 "On the Well-Known, Particular Objects" ("Om de välbekanta,enskilda föremålen"). Filosofisk Tidskrift, No. 4, Vol. 2 (December 1981) "Grammatik, Logik, Realität ." In: Höllerer, ed. Sprache im technischen Zeitalter, (Berlin) Vol. 57 (Januari-Mars 1976) "On the Existence of Moral Values" ("On moraliska värdens existens"). Häften för kritiska studier (Stockholm), Vol. I , 1970 "A Note on the Concepts of 'Verbal Significance' and 'Sensible Significance' in Alexander Bryan Johnson's Treatise on Language ." In: Todd & Blackwood, eds. Language and Value. New York & London: Greenwood, 1969 "Some Views on the Semantic Analysis of Sentences in Fiction ("Några synpunkter på den semantiska analysen av diktade satser"). In: Henschen-Dahlquist, Anders Wedberg, et al., eds. Sanning Dikt Tro. Stockholm: Bonniers, 1968 PHILOSOPHY: Books De andras närvaro.Estetiska essäer (The Presence of the Other: Essays in Esthetics). Stockholm, 1995 Landskapets
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